CONTENTS

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Preface[ix]

BOOK I

THÉOPHRASTE RENAUDOT, PHYSICIAN, FOUNDER OF THE FIRST FRENCH NEWSPAPER

Chapter I. Théophraste Renaudot, Physician, Philanthropist, and Founder of the First French Newspaper[3]

BOOK II

STATE OF MEDICINE IN WESTERN EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Chapter II. Low State of Medical Affairs in Germany at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century[15]
Chapter III. Physicians who Attained Distinction in Some of the Departments of Medicine during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century[18]
Chapter IV. Distinguished Swiss Physicians who Played a Prominent Part in the Development of the Science and Art of Medicine in Germany[34]
Chapter V. The Earliest Publication in Europe of a Systematic Treatise on Hygiene, Public Health and Medico-Legal Science[43]
Chapter VI. Two Eminent German Surgeons of the Pre-Antiseptic Period[48]
Chapter VII. A General Survey of German Medicine at the End of the Eighteenth Century[52]

BOOK III

THE VIENNA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Chapter VIII. Gerhard Van Swieten[59]
Chapter IX. Anton Stoerck, Van Swieten’s Successor, and the Progress of Medical Affairs at Vienna under the Management of Joseph II[71]
Chapter X. Prochaska, Hyrtl and Rokitansky, Three of the Most Distinguished Teachers at the Medical School of Vienna during the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century[79]

BOOK IV

MEDICINE IN ITALY

Chapter XI. Baglivi, Morgagni, Scarpa, Spallanzani, Tissot and Galvani; Italy’s most Illustrious Physicians during the Eighteenth Century[91]

BOOK V

SMALL-POX, ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST SCOURGES

Chapter XII. Measures Adopted for the Control of Small-Pox; Inoculation, Vaccination[107]

BOOK VI

AWAKENING OF THE CHEMISTS, PHYSIOLOGISTS AND PATHOLOGISTS

Chapter XIII. The English and French Chemists Contribute Their Share toward the Advance of Medical Knowledge[119]

BOOK VII

MEDICINE IN ENGLAND

Chapter XIV. English Leaders in Medicine and Surgery during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (First Group)[129]
Chapter XV. English Leaders in Medicine and Surgery (Second Group)[139]
Chapter XVI. English Leaders in Medicine and Surgery (Second Group continued)[150]

BOOK VIII

MEDICINE IN FRANCE

Chapter XVII. Bordeu and Bichat; The Beginning of Experimental Physiology and Experimental Pathology in France[159]

BOOK IX

MEDICINE AT THE HEIGHT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Chapter XVIII. Types of French Physicians who Flourished about the Time of the Reign of Terror[171]
Chapter XIX. Laënnec and the Invention of the Modern Method of Auscultation; Paul-Joseph Barthez[195]
Chapter XX. Early Studies of the Disease now Universally called Typhoid Fever: Bretonneau[202]

BOOK X

BROUSSAIS AND BROUSSAISM

Chapter XXI. The Harmful Effects of Broussais’ Teaching[207]

BOOK XI

THE GOLDEN AGE OF SURGERY IN FRANCE

Chapter XXII. J. L. Petit, of Paris, and his Contemporaries in Surgery—Sabatier, Chopart, Desault and Dupuytren[215]
Chapter XXIII. Workers in Special Departments of Surgery: Demours, Descemet, Delpech, Fauchard, Jourdain, Gariot[230]

BOOK XII

DESGENETTES AND LARREY, FRANCE’S MOST CELEBRATED MILITARY SURGEONS

Chapter XXIV. Military Surgery in France, as represented by Desgenettes and Baron Larrey[241]

BOOK XIII

A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT HOSPITALS AND THE PRINCIPAL ORGANIZATIONS IN PARIS FOR TEACHING MEDICINE AND MIDWIFERY

Chapter XXV. Hospital of “La Maternité,” the Great French Midwifery School[253]
Chapter XXVI. Further Details Concerning the Paris Faculté de Médecine and Concerning some of the Larger Hospitals of Paris[258]
Chapter XXVII. Armand Trousseau, one of the last of France’s Great Clinical Teachers[265]
List of the More Important Authorities Consulted[271]
General Index[277]
Footnotes[300]